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It is announced that Amazon is developing the Kindle Format 8 (KF8) update for ebooks. The main upgrade is the support of HTML5 in the new format.

It is announced that Amazon is developing the Kindle Format 8 (KF8) update for ebooks. The main upgrade is the support of HTML5 in the new format.

That HTML5 support will bring a lot of advantages that will make ebooks utilizing the new KF8 format more interactive and exciting. Particularly, fixed layouts, CSS3, drop cap, embedded fonts, floating elements, text on background images, lists and a bunch more will be supported by HTML5.

KF8 will replace Mobi 7 and will be the format showcased on the Kindle Fire handset. The big advantages of this new format won’t be the normal ebooks. The ebooks that benefit most will be children’s books and graphic novels that need lots of color and benefit from more interactivity. The update also includes over 150 new formatting capabilities to the ebook bag of tricks.
There are a lot of improvements to the Kindle Publisher tools that will allow the publisher to create Kindle books to take advantage of the new formatting supported in KF8. Amazon will be launching a Kindle Previewer 2 soon to allow the publisher to preview how books will look utilizing the new format. In addition, the Kindle Fire will be the initial handset to support the new format and in next months support will be launched to existing apps and handsets.

Dropbox and HTC have made its announcement about their new partnership that includes pre-installed on all HTC Android handsets as well as an included 5 GB right out of the box!

Dropbox and HTC have made its announcement about their new partnership that includes pre-installed on all HTC Android handsets as well as an included 5 GB right out of the box! Dropbox is a cloud-based business that stores files for you, all of these files accessible wherever consumers have a Dropbox app installed.

In terms of the desktop, consumers will have a special folder on your desktop that can be accessed everywhere else you’ve got Dropbox. For Android, that means ultra-easy file transfers to and from your device! The Dropbox app has been a savior for your humble narrator on many occasions due on the whole to its super simple nature and ease in use.

In terms of the desktop, consumers will have a special folder on your desktop that can be accessed everywhere else you’ve got Dropbox.

Transfer any sized file (inside your limit) with ease, share folders with whomever you want (even if they don’t use Dropbox) and now make your mobile life one step closer to total oneness. HTC and Dropbox have not announced whether they’ll enable in their hands to have the similar free 5GB of space.
Sense is HTC’s user interface sitting on Android that makes their handsets look so pretty which is different on every single HTC tablet, regardless of the version number.

Apart from the expected HTC Radar 4G Windows Phone Mango release on November 2nd, T-Mobile USA may also be going to introduce the Android-powered LG DoublePlay.

Apart from the expected HTC Radar 4G Windows Phone Mango release on November 2nd, T-Mobile USA may also be going to introduce the Android-powered LG DoublePlay. Both handsets were informed previously and at the current time, T-Mobile’s website had listed both tablets.
The LG DoublePlay is aimed at the mid-range and entry-level smartphone demographic. The specs and form factor of the phone will cause LG’s handset against competitor Samsung’s Sidekick 4G because both handsets feature a sliding QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode that will make it easier to compose and respond to messages. Similarly the Sidekick, the DoublePlay also features cloud text, a spec where users can compose and respond to text messages from a computer, rather than from the phone itself.

The DoublePlay will be equipped with a larger touchscreen that will slide over a smaller touchscreen.

The DoublePlay will be equipped with a larger touchscreen that will slide over a smaller touchscreen. The smaller touchscreen can be utilized to display more information or manipulate control of the Android OS. In addition, flanking the smaller touchscreen is a split keyboard.
The price of the handset has not been revealed. T-Mobile’s computer system says that the tablet may be available for website and telephone orders at the beginning of Wednesday, October 26, with a full retail release on November 2 in retail stores.

The second incarnation of Google’s TV set top-box software will integrate apps from the Android Market and will look like Android for tablets.

The second incarnation of Google’s TV set top-box software will integrate apps from the Android Market and will look like Android for tablets. It is rumored that Google TV 2.0 will have full-blown Android Market integration for apps and content to develop the TV part of Google TV.
Google TV 2.0 should take advantage from an interface facelift, inspired by Android Honeycomb for tablets from Android Market integration. The photos of the new interface will be able to download apps directly on the Google TV box like Fox Business, CNBC Real-Time, or Adult Swim. An app for QVC is also displayed as a fireplace app, as a screensaver for your TV.
The initial version of Google TV never really caught on when its main functionality was limited to search for actors, teams, channel names and pull content from the Web and TV listings for you to watch. If consumers had a USB webcam, they could also turn the TV into a huge video chat monitor particularly when some TV network sites blocked streaming via Google TV.
The Logitech Revue was the initial set-top box to run Google TV. It seems to be expensive ($299) for a tablet with no storage or DVR capabilities, requires a full-size keyboard to control it.
There’s no announcement when Google TV 2.0 would be released, as the reboot was expected this summer. Scott Webster at AndroidGuys expects an official unveiling of the updated Google TV on November 8 at Streaming Media West 2011, a conference on the online video ecosystem, where Adobe, Hulu, and CBS will be among the participants. In the mean time, it’s also unsure whether new hardware will go with Google TV 2.0.

Verizon Wireless aserted late Friday that the Galaxy Nexus from Samsung will be coming on its LTE network "later this year", but not unveil the price

Verizon Wireless aserted late Friday that the Galaxy Nexus from Samsung will be coming on its LTE network “later this year”, but not unveil the price. However, users will have to sign up for at least a $39.99 calling plan and a $30 data plan.

Samsung had confirmed that Verizon would be the initial carrier to release the phone. Verizon will be releasing the Galaxy Nexus with the first launch. Other carriers may support this handset in the near future. The Galaxy Nexus handset has displayed in Hong Kong supported the technologies utilized by AT&T and T-Mobile. In addition, Samsung obviously created an additional handset that takes advantage of the CDMA and LTE networks used by Verizon.

The Galaxy Nexus is equipped with 8.94 millimeters thin with a 4.29-millimeter bezel, a 4.65-inch HD sAMOLED touch-screen display with 1280-by-720 resolution and runs a 1.2-GHz, dual-core application processor.

This tablet is also the initial launched with Android 4.0, AKA “Ice Cream Sandwich”. Specs of the new OS consist of an improved lock screen with a faster camera, facial-recognition capabilities, and Android Beam, a technology to “bump” contacts using Near Field Communications technology.

The company's video presence seems to have been violated at the beginning of this morning.

The company’s video presence seems to have been violated at the beginning of this morning. According to Mashable’s Zoe Fox, a total of four advertising-themed videos were uploaded to the account at around 11:30 E.T. and a fifth, a video entitled “Garry’s Mod – Escape the Box,” was posted and removed quickly.
There’s no description and there are no videos despite the fact that the channel’s country has been changed to the United Kingdom and its hometown now reads.

It’s not clear how exactly someone broken into Microsoft’s account. In spite of being frustrating, and fixable as soon as the business week starts on Monday, the Microsoft hack at least has a silver lining of sorts.

YouTube would have accessed into Microsoft’s account offline within a short amount of time if the account’s hackers were a bit more unsavory in their actions, much as it did when hackers filled Sesame Street’s YouTube account with pornographic content in the previous week. Since YouTube has no tangible reason to pull Microsoft’s account, the blanked YouTube channel will continue to persist until Microsoft regains control. However, this second high-profile attack in recent weeks does bring up a key question: There’s no suggestion that Microsoft has taken full advantage of YouTube’s account security measures as-is.

Sprint is stopping its unlimited 4G data launch for consumers who utilize mobile broadband handsets such as handsets, netbooks, USB cards or mobile hotspot tablets.

Sprint is stopping its unlimited 4G data launch for consumers who utilize mobile broadband handsets such as handsets, netbooks, USB cards or mobile hotspot tablets.

Recently, consumers who also utilize their smartphones as a mobile hotspot will be provided data usage for that service limited to 5GB of 3G (third-generation wireless) services, a long with 5GB of combined 3G/4G usage “dependent upon handset capability.” The costs of additional data use above 5GB will 5 cents each MB.
Sprint’s notice about the change is informed on one of its support Web pages, and customers who use Sprint’s mobile broadband services are getting direct notifications.
The carrier had already run 3G data use to 3 GB, 5 GB and 10 GB a month, but continued to provide the unlimited 4G, or fourth-generation wireless, service, which is now more available on Sprint’s network.